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In 211 CE, Ma Chao, the son of Ma Teng, led a coalition in Guanxi (west of Tong Pass) against the Han chancellor, Cao Cao and was joined by Qiang soldiers. Although the coalition collapsed after the Battle of Tong Pass, some of the Qiang people continued to support Ma Chao in his attempt to retake Liang province in 213 CE before he was driven ...
The name "Tibeto-Burman" was first applied to this group in 1856 by James Logan, who added Karen in 1858. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Charles Forbes viewed the family as uniting the Gangetic and Lohitic branches of Max Müller 's Turanian , a huge family consisting of all the Eurasian languages except the Semitic , "Aryan" ( Indo-European ) and Chinese ...
The Karbi languages may be closely related to Kuki-Chin, but Thurgood (2003) and van Driem (2011) leave Karbi unclassified within Sino-Tibetan. [4] [5]The Kuki-Chin branches listed below are from VanBik (2009), with the Northwestern branch added from Scott DeLancey, et al. (2015), [6] and the Khomic branch (which has been split off from the Southern branch) from Peterson (2017).
The Tibetic languages belong to the Tibeto-Burman language group. The traditional or mythological explanation of the Tibetan people's origin is that they are the descendants of the human Pha Trelgen Changchup Sempa and rock ogress Ma Drag Sinmo.
Sagart et al. (2019) estimate that West and East Gyalrongic had diverged from each other about 3,000 years before present. [3]Although Tangut is most commonly associated with Yinchuan, the capital of the Tangut Empire, Zhoushan (周山, Zhōushān) in Jinchuan County (Chinese: 金川縣 Jīnchuān Xiàn, Written Tibetan: Chuchen; roughly located between the territories of Khroskyabs and Situ ...
The Meitei people, also known as Meetei, [12] Manipuri people, [1] are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group native to the Indian State of Manipur.They form the largest and dominant ethnic group of Manipur in Northeast India.
The Kham Magars (खाम मगर), also known in scholarship as the Northern Magars, are a (Tibeto-Burman language) Magar Kham language or Kham Kura speaking indigenous ethnic tribal community native to Nepal. [1] [2] [3] In general, Kham Magars refer to themselves using their clan name and the ethnic identity of Magar. [4]
The Tibeto-Burman family of languages, which extends over a huge geographic range, is characterized by great typological diversity, comprising languages that range from the highly tonal, monosyllabic, analytic type with practically no affixational morphology, like the Loloish languages, to marginally tonal or atonal languages with complex systems of verbal agreement morphology, like the ...